Sr. Program Manager

Primary Duties & Responsibilities


* Identify the business units key projects.

Be able to organize those projects by region, country, size, progress, completion date, project manager and other metrics as requested by leadership


* Develop a standardized reporting format to be used by the various internal and external PM's to provide project status updates at a frequency identified by leadership.


* Develop KPI's for the global facilities program management group and a format for tracking and reporting them to leadership in QBR's.

Examples would be number of projects tracked, total project value, and stop light summarization of individual projects.


* Establish strong working relationships with all the PM's who have direct ownership and responsibility for each of the company's Projects.


* Provides guidelines on the MOA for approval of all project-based contracts.


* Tracks a roll-up of individual spending against budget and aggregated spend against budget


* Serve as the project management mentor for all businesses within EMLO.


* In collaboration with interdisciplinary teams such as Facilities, BU Operations, Engineering, ELT, 3 rd party vendors; responsible for generating development program schedules for key projects that hit key milestones, deliverables and ultimately meet customer requirements.


* Responsible and accountable for implementing and delivering the approved programs, meeting defined program goals and timelines.

Program schedules are developed with operations and communicated with the customer on a regular basis.

Schedule recovery plans are developed and submitted in a timely manner to customer.


* Deliver project updates directly to Divisional VP, BU SVP, Segment President and Exec as necessary.


* Work with key stakeholders to define necessary capital expenditures, resources and budget on assigned projects.


* Assess projects for key risks and mitigations prior and throughout the program.

Report and escalate project issues to management as needed.


* Track and regularly report out progress against deliverables and communicate gaps and needs.


* Become embedded in Facilities, Engineering, and Ops Teams to enable intimate understanding and appreciation of functional needs


* Manage staff, as well as direct the activities of contractors and clients, ensuring coordination and execution of needed work.


* Facilitate effective communication and coordination on assigned programs between all disciplines, vendors and all project participants including customer interface.


* Prepares requests for proposal and conducts all necessary meetings to facilitate hiring architectural and construction management services.

Ensures all permits are opened and closed, as required.


* Conducts pre-construction meetings, reviews bids, and recommends award of contract.


* Provide regular project updates at the frequency and in the format provided by the corporate team

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